Pusher is a powerful tool for adding harmonics to individual channels and busses in order to produce a rich mix that's full of life. The Blend lever controls the mix of dry signal and distorted, "magnetised" output, so you can always smooth out the edges with some of the original sound. Nonetheless, even when the Bias is leant on heavily, the sound retains a character all its own, since the Cores react to the input signal dynamically, producing unusual squelching artifacts at extreme settings.Īt the less overt end of the scale, small pinches of the Bias control help to tame spikey transients for headroom optimisation.
Pushing up the Bias throws the Cores into overdrive, so the source material can be moulded into almost total distortion.
Pusher can be used to add a subtle touch of vibrancy to the mid-range crack of a snare, thicken up the tone of a kick drum, or smooth the transients on overcooked hi-hats. "The source material can be moulded into almost total distortion" It's a lot of fun, and it works especially well on drums - Kush Audio refers to it as "Magnetic EQ", but that's an overly esoteric and misleading description. The main technique behind successfully using Pusher, then, is balancing the four Cores in conjunction with the Flux Drive control. That'll be the magnetism, we guess! State of Flux I'm not sure mr Scott codes his plugs as a company appears here and there "DSP coded by Studio Devil.There also seems to be a level of complex and unpredictable interaction between the cores, whereby introducing more level on one can start to affect the colour of another. geeks and probably an efficient way to "protect" his creations
Plus it's a nice way to bypass endless geeky conversations with. More than "hi-fi", I tend to think his marketing is more on music than technic. "Magnetic cores" are rather about wich harmonic the plug emphasizes. Pusher is more about saturation than compression, though it features one algo comp. should it become available in a sale like the one UBK-1 was a couple of weeks ago, I would grab it instantly. Could it be achieved with a combination of others EQ's ? May be. First time ever I had that feeling with a plugin that promesses that much. As I often - always - struggle with clarity, top end not sounding to harsh, well it was instant magic. I've demoed Clariphonic and it's mojo at just a couple of knobs.
SDDR is one hell of a saturation/tape emulation tool and a bang for the bucks I've never quite experience before, set aside TDL Feedback compressor or some Variety of sound boxes - but they are 32 bits. I own UBK-1 and it's great - but could probably be achieved by the Klanghelm duo, compressor and saturation plug-ins.
Oh well, at least this plug should work well with my de-oxygenised, quantum fluctuating directional ethernet cables.ĭear Chris, you could download the plugs as they are in demo mode for 10 days Is he using the word "magnetic" in the same way that, say, a feedback suppressor seems to 'magnetically' (dynamically) home-in on a narrow frequency band? Or does it model the effects of different transformers? Should I just stfu and buy one already and feel the power? Some Qs: Is this a hardware box that Greg has actually built and then modeled for the code? If not - why the talk of "magnetic cores" - and "bend the laws of physics" etc. and he wouldn't be the first developer to take that approach. His products are clearly of the "I don't quite know whats happening here but it sounds f-ing great!" philosophy. I think that's a perfectly laudable aim/stance to take - so fair play to him for that. I'm not the biggest fan of the Kush marketing copy - it reads like "Hi-Fi Enthusiast" marketing speak which turns me right off.įrom what I've seen that's part of Gregory's philosophy - to get away from quantifiable/predictable engineering - and so encourage experimentation and fresh listening. whilst Gregory seems to be pretty damn good at both. I haven't used these plugs - and they have clearly been impressing people here, which I'm sure is testament to their quality - so I'm reluctant to pass comment, particularly as I've never built or coded anything audio in my life.